Holcroft, Thomas: Anna St. Ives. V1. 20 June 2010
 

Thomas Holcroft (10 December 1745 – 23 March 1809) was an English dramatist and miscellaneous writer.

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Anna Wenbourne St. Ives to Louisa Clifton
Wenbourne-Hill
Here are we, my dear girl, in the very height of preparation. We begin our journey southward at five tomorrow morning. We shall make a short stay in London, and then proceed to Paris. Expectation is on tiptoe: my busy fancy has pictured to itself Calais, Montreuil, Abbeville, in short every place which the book of post roads enumerates, and some of which the divine Sterne has rendered so famous.